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23 January, 2017

Fix flickering screen on Dell XPS 13 (9343)

When running Ubuntu 16.04 with the 4.4 kernel you sometimes get a flickering screen, at least we noticed it and we have seen a lot of reports about it on Stackoverflow, Stackexchange, Ubuntu forums and such. To fix the issue you have to update the kernel, and it’s really easy once you figure out how to get the Broadcom Wifi driver to work with the new kernel. Here are 3 simple steps to sort it out: